Sentence examples for formal specificity from inspiring English sources

Briefly, then, Velleman's complicated account of what it takes to be an action doesn't at this point give us a univocal theory of what our practical reasons are — not, at any rate, at the level of formal specificity of Vogler's or Thompson's or Korsgaard's views.

Formal specification.

Although they do not have formal elements of specificity (prefixes, suffixes, etc)., such units have, from a conceptual point of view, highly precise specialized meanings, as highlighted in the beginning of this text.

In the absence of a population of E. helvum known to be uninfected, formal investigation of specificity in our study is impossible.

We also performed a formal comparison of specificity and incidence of mild malaria endpoints from active and passive surveillance in a sub-group of children who were matched by age, period of follow up and location (implying similar malaria endemicity).

For a more formal validation study, including specificity and sensitivity analyses, a validated pain assessment tool or a composite pain and agitation score would be appropriate to use, as well as blinding of skin conductance levels.

No formal assessments of sensitivity and specificity of our search strategy were carried out; specificity was estimated by assessment of the number of papers retrieved, and sensitivity by the return of all key papers identified in the scoping search.

From what I've seen, Harrison's imitators readily produce jazzy complexes of vernacular materials and objects, but they lack the formal command and the rhetorical specificity that make every nuance in her work feel destined.

As 135 patients could not be categorized with certainty ("undetermined") formal calculation of sensitivity and specificity was precluded.

The formal definition of sensitivity and specificity is provided in Formula 5, where TP, FP, TN and FN stand for the number of true positives, false positives, true negatives and false negatives, respectively.

When this cost is relatively high, the specificity of a formal identification method is an important contributor to its cost effectiveness; as this cost falls, specificity becomes less important relative to sensitivity.